This book was stimulated by and sets out to analyse a political battle over water pricing by a municipal system. Originally published in 1984, this title provides improved methods for demand function estimation where block rates are involved, suggests procedures for rational pricing of municipal water, and explains how politics can dominate when real decisions are made. Due to the additional virtue of this title being easy to read, it is ideal for students interested in environmental studi...

Why do the nations rage? Why do the people waste their time with futile plans? (Ps. 2:1) We live in turbulent times, and people are looking in every direction for answers. This book is an effort by the author to put in print materials developed and used over a twenty-five-year career as a Christian counselor. It is the educational material without the interaction involved in face-to-face counseling. The book examines the spiritual roots of a person's worldview and their impact on the decis...

Quantitative and Statistical Research MethodsThis user-friendly textbook teaches students to understand and apply procedural steps in completing quantitative studies. It explains statistics while progressing through the steps of the hypothesis-testing process from hypothesis to results. The research problems used in the book reflect statistical applications related to interesting and important topics. In addition, the book provides a Research Analysis and Interpretation Guide to he...

In recent years, mental health professionals who have traditionally focused on the emotional state of the individual have come to realize that problems arise from the unique interactions between particular individuals and environments. From necessity, they are beginning to look at context; no longer can they place the responsibility for mental health on the shoulders of the person alone. Most attention has been paid to the impact of educational and work settings, but it is clear t...

This volume provides a thorough examination of the interplay between individuals and their environment in the development and maintenance of problem behaviors, and delineates procedures for conducting assessment, intervention, and prevention within the child's ecosystem. As individuals structure, change, and organize their environments, their environments work to do the same. Environmental or contextual and individual variables act reciprocally to shape an individual's behavior. For school...

Practical FDG Imaging provides the reader with a reference source of cases with FDG images obtained both on dedicated PET tomographs and hybrid scintillation cameras. The cases are presented in depth so that they will be of value to both specialists and residents in training who need to learn the indications and interpretations of FDG images and the advantages and limitations of hybrid scintillation cameras compared with dedicated PET tomographs. This book is ideal for nuc...

William James (1842 – 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist. He was one of the leading thinkers of the nineteenth century and is often hailed as one of the most influential American philosophers of all time. This fascinating volume explores the subject of religious experiences, looking at its nature and its relationship with the human mind. Contents include: “Religion and Neurology”, “Circumscription of the Topic”, “The Reality of the Unseen”, “The Religion of Healthy-Mindedne...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time"The Varieties of Religious Experience is certainly the most notable of all books in the field of the psychology of religion and probably destined to be the most influential [one] written on religion in the twentieth century," said Walter Houston Clark in Psychology Today. The book was an immediate bestseller upon its publication in June 1902. Reflect...

This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The vast range of Mexican expression is examined, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Filling a need that becomes ever more pressing, this volume provides fresh insights.

Per the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety affects over 2 billion adults worldwide and over 97 million in the United States alone. Of those, approximately 54% are women.The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry stated that annual anxiety treatment costs are over $42 billion in the United States. Of this, $ 23 billion is for repetitive doctor visits due to symptoms that mimic physical illnesses. Compared to non-anxious individuals, those with anxiety disorders are 5X more likely ...

Social and Political Movements in Western Europe (1976) discusses the ideological currents, social bases and policy directions to examine the impact of social movements on European political systems and societies. It looks at the nature of the relations among mass publics, movements and party systems and surveys in a comprehensive manner the entire political spectrum in a geographical area.

This book provides a coherent framework for understanding shrinkage estimation in statistics. The term refers to modifying a classical estimator by moving it closer to a target which could be known a priori or arise from a model. The goal is to construct estimators with improved statistical properties. The book focuses primarily on point and loss estimation of the mean vector of multivariate normal and spherically symmetric distributions.Chapter 1 reviews the statistical a...